The final tally on the Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang tour is in and it topped a half billion — $558,255,524 to be exact. The staggering total was accumulated between the fall of 2005 and Aug. 26, when the tour wrapped at the O2 in London after a run of European makeup dates.
The box office gross figure, which was provided to Billboard by longtime Stones tour producer Michael Cohl, is plenty enough to make A Bigger Bang the top grossing tour in history. In fact, the tour already owned that honor after passing U2’s Vertigo, which topped out at $389 million. The previous mark had been the Stones’ $320 million Voodoo Lounge tour of 1994-95.
The 144 shows on A Bigger Bang drew a paid attendance of 4,680,000, according to Cohl.
The tour was certainly not without its challenges, including the now infamous fall from a tree in Fiji by guitarist Keith Richards in April 2006.
Source Billboard
